Fourth annual ‘Every Day Tractor Ride’ raises funds for scholarships

GRUNDY COUNTY – Last Wednesday, over 50 area farmers took on the sweltering heat to participate in the fourth annual Every Day Tractor Ride.
At 9:30 in the morning the riders set out on their 50-mile trek through Grundy and Black Hawk counties, most of them in their oldest tractors without air conditioning.
But as it turns out, a tractor ride was just the thing to beat the heat, according to local farmer and tractor ride organizer Darwin Cannegieter.
“There was a good amount of wind, so the breeze blew right through our hair and no one really got hot,” he said. “We couldn’t have had a better ride.”
The tractor ride, which is in its fourth year, was created to honor the late agricultural journalist Mark Pearson and to raise money to give scholarships to local students interested in pursuing a career in agriculture.
This year, the committee presented four area students with scholarships.
For the full story, including scholarship recipients, see the July 28 edition of The Grundy Register.